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Peerless Pump has been designing, engineering, and manufacturing pumps for more than 80 years. The company was basing component stock levels on historical data, as it did not have the ability to accurately forecast customer demand. But with forecasting and demand planning software that increased forecast accuracy, the company has nearly doubled its sales over the past four years, while keeping inventory levels constant.

Manufacturers today must respond quickly to ever-changing customer demands—while keeping costs low and efficiency high. How can original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and contract manufacturers (CMs) effectively manage the demand-driven supply chain? A solution that increases your visibility of inventory planning and management throughout the supply chain can help reduce your response time. Learn more about the benefits.

mrp assessing forecast accuracy data mapping across multiple MRP systems and bring that into the system, Kenney says. Data integrity is key here''it''s the old garbage-in, garbage-out scenario, so you have to deal with keeping both your own and your partners'' data clean across multiple sites. Companies should also learn the underlying business rules of their partners'' systems. Assessing how to deine suficient trust with CM partners''and how to maintain that trust over the course of the relationship''is also important. You also have to
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Today’s consumers expect that the products they order will be delivered in a timely fashion—so timely, in fact, that the demands are often far greater than a manufacturer’s capabilities. Being unable to meet order request deadlines can be costly for producers. Learn about a solution that can help: material requirements planning (MRP) software can ensure materials and products are available for production and delivery.

mrp assessing forecast accuracy Your MRP Software Spell Profit? Today’s consumers expect that the products they order will be delivered in a timely fashion—so timely, in fact, that the demands are often far greater than a manufacturer’s capabilities. Being unable to meet order request deadlines can be costly for producers. Learn about a solution that can help: material requirements planning (MRP) software can ensure materials and products are available for production and delivery.
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Newman Technology realized it needed an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for production accuracy and accountability. This case study looks at their results with software from the Plex Manufacturing Cloud.

When raw materials providers, manufacturers, and retailers work together to calculate future order needs, they can all act on the best information available. Successful order forecast collaboration requires all members to share risks if forecasts vary, and to discuss issues as they arise. Accurate order forecasts drive sales increases, inventory decreases, and better decisions. With so many benefits across the entire demand chain, shouldn’t you look into order forecast collaboration with your partners?

In 2006, Envision Credit Union’s new chief financial officer (CFO) was looking to improve the visibility, efficiency, and accuracy of the company’s accounting and finance functions. Find out how a new business intelligence (BI) and analytics solution helped Envision reduce administrative costs, increase the average amount of overnight cash investments, and improve operational visibility, without adding staff.

More than 6,000 MISys Manufacturing Systems (MISys) have been sold in over 40 countries. This scalable manufacturing resource planning (MRP) system is designed for small to mid-sized manufacturing companies. MISys handles the needs of make-to-order (MTO), make-to-stock (MTS), repetitive, mixed-mode, discrete, and job shop environments. Functionality includes inventory management, bill of material (BOM) revision control, integrated purchasing, MRP, master production scheduling (MPS), bar coding, serial and lot tracking, shop floor control, rules-based custom product configurator, and job management. MISys can be run locally or via the Internet. The MISys Manufacturing system is integratable with the ACCPAC Accounting Suite.

Keeping track of the accuracy of packaging components in the pharmaceutical industry can be very challenging. It is important that every company be completely confident that printed packaging workflows are as efficient and effective as possible. Examine how automated proofreading has been proven to be an integral part of solidifying content integrity within a complex packaging workflow process.

For manufacturers, barcoding carries with it numerous benefits, including increased accuracy, efficiency, and traceability, along with easier adherence to customer or regulatory requirements. Discover how implementing barcoding as part of an integrated software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution can help manufacturing companies of all sizes, and in many different industries, improve operations and business performance.

Manufacturing Information Systems, Inc. (MISys) has been developing integrated manufacturing resource planning (MRP) software since 1983, and is located in Woodstock, Vermont (US). The MISys Manufacturing System is targeted towards small- to medium-sized manufacturers. There have been over 7,800 installations of the MISys Manufacturing System in over 43 countries.

mrp assessing forecast accuracy integrated manufacturing resource planning (MRP) software since 1983, and is located in Woodstock, Vermont (US). The MISys Manufacturing System is targeted towards small- to medium-sized manufacturers. There have been over 7,800 installations of the MISys Manufacturing System in over 43 countries.
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Flow manufacturing leverages techniques to help manufacturers create any product on any given day, in any given quantity including the "quantity of one" (i.e., through the so-called mixed-model production), while keeping inventories to a minimum and shortening cycle times in order to quickly fill customer orders.

mrp assessing forecast accuracy JIT, Flow, and Traditional MRP Part 1: Tutorial Flow Manufacturing The lean manufacturing support philosophy has recently received increased interest, potentially allowing it to break like a huge wave across industry. The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems of the 1990s have been burdened with the liability of carrying on some well-publicized Material Requirements Planning (MRP) problems like complex bills of material (BOMs), inefficient workflows and unnecessary transactions, activities, and data
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